> I just wanted to say that I also dislike the concept of intellectual property.
Right. I understand the "copyleft fights against IP" argument. :-)
> I'm not sure how making it harder to change out parts of a compiled program makes the language "more free". It's a feature that's missing.
Really? Are we really not above misappropriating words? My point wasn't to lay claim to the word "freedom." My point was to say how silly it is to bake our biases into our descriptions of the world around us. The various perspectives on freedom are well covered by the Internet at large, and extend far beyond the realm of IP.
Right. I understand the "copyleft fights against IP" argument. :-)
> I'm not sure how making it harder to change out parts of a compiled program makes the language "more free". It's a feature that's missing.
Really? Are we really not above misappropriating words? My point wasn't to lay claim to the word "freedom." My point was to say how silly it is to bake our biases into our descriptions of the world around us. The various perspectives on freedom are well covered by the Internet at large, and extend far beyond the realm of IP.